Get involved – Landowners
Supporting landowners across Devon
The Saving Devon's Treescapes project are offering free advisor visits to landowners across Devon, so we can provide hope and action in the face of the alarming changes that are already affecting our precious treescapes. We have already helped businesses like Otter Brewery plant hundreds of trees to help strengthen Devon's treescapes and enable wildlife to thrive. Planting season is between November and March each year. We aim to do most of our advisory visits during the Spring and Summer months.
As a small landowner, we were not aware of grants available and how to tap into them. The advice has pointed us in the right direction to register our land and apply for capital items to lay one of our hedges. We also like the idea of tagging hedge trees and allowing them grow up.
We’re working alongside FWAG SW to deliver free advisory visits to landowners across Devon. These visits will focus on:
- Management of hedges, in-field and hedge trees, orchards, wood pasture
- Identifying individual hedge trees and tagging them to allow individual trees to grow up
- Hedge restoration, planting new hedges and sympathetic hedge management (funded through Countryside Stewardship option and capital items)
- Planting small on-farm woodlands (using trees grown in the project’s own nurseries, potentially using project volunteers)
- 3-2-1 ash replacement formula: planting at least three new trees for every large ash, two for every medium-sized ash and one for every small ash
One of our advisors can visit your land, complete a report with recommendations and then advise and support you on the best funding opportunities.
We are particularly interested in landowners within our 5 focus landscapes – South Devon, Torbay, Exeter and Cranbrook, Coly Valleys and Neroche.
All our advisory visits happen in Spring and Summer. We then allocate all of our trees in September, ready for the winter planting season. Please note that we have received an exceptional amount of requests for an advisory visit and therefore it may take a while for us to get back to you and for the visit to be arranged.
If you are a smallholder, community group, school or house with gardens/parkland, please complete this form and we’ll be in touch https://forms.office.com/r/shgpiAap4i
If you are a farmer with a larger holding and/or registered for the Basic Payments Scheme, contact Simeon Day: simeon.day@fwagsw.org.uk
I have been quite worried about ash dieback and what it may mean to my hedges and woodland. The Treescapes report was very helpful, pointing me towards where advice and funding is available to get woodland management advice about ash dieback. We also identified places where we can plant hedgerows to start replacing ash trees that might die over the next few years.
